AZAL – Gabala – 0:4

Date: Sunday, 5 April 2015 / Kick-off: 17:00 AZST / Venue: AZAL Arena / Crowd: 500
Referee: Aliyar Aghayev
Assistant referees: Zeynal Zeynalov, Rza Mammadov
4th official: Munis Abdullayev
AFFA member: Mubariz Huseynov
Referee inspector: Mahammad Mammadov
Yellow cards: Novruz Mammadov, 21 (unsporting behavior); Ruslan Majidov, 40 (unsporting behavior); Valeriy Kutsenko, 51 (systematically fouling) // Javid Huseynov, 45 (unsporting behavior); Rafael Santos, 47 (unsporting behavior); Rikardinyo, 66 (unsporting behavior); Ruslan Abishov, 79 (unsporting behavior)
Goals: Javid Huseynov, 24, 41 (p.); Victor Mendy, 26; Ekigho Ehiosun, 86
Stoppage time: I Part - o; II Part 2 min.

Gabala punished AZAL scoring 4 in cleansheet victory within the 28th tour of the Topaz Premier League in away. They could keep up their winning streak of 5 matches 17 days after the last 2:1 victory over Inter Baku.

Although AZAL started faster, Gabala went much close to scoring when Bakhtiyar Soltanov”s shot was denied by the post. Taking the lead into the 9th minute, the red-black side gave another trouble to the opponents as Javid Huseynov’s pass found Aleksey Gai, but the latter failed to score. A bit later, the Ukrainian midfielder set his compatriot Fomin being off target.

The home side fed back with threat by Tamkin Khalilzadeh kicked the post.

After some more mutual attacks, Javid Huseynov could open the scoring with his inch-perfect shot in the 24th minute.

Right after the goal, Gabala gave no chance to the home to come alive and scored their second with Mendy converting the ball from Gai into the net – 2:0.

The home side threw everything against the guests and at times looked that seemed evident with foul on Gai before Javid”s penalty tripled Gabala”s lead during the half.

Roman Grigorchuk made changes in the line-up after the restart replacing Javid with Rashad Sadigov.

It was AZAL taking faster step again but Dmitri Bezotosny held on clear and in return Gabala said “see this” scoring their 4th in the winner on 86 minutes when Ekigo Ehiosun fired right in the box.

The result left Gabala sitting 4th on the league table.

AZAL line-up:
1. Ruslan Majidov
4. Lasha Kasradze
15. Oskars Klava
21. Novruz Mammadov (c)
13. Shahriyar Rahimov
3. Juan Francisco
7. Tamkin Khalilzadeh
(10. Nijat Gurbanov, 63)
8. Seymur Asadov
(5. Karim Diniyev, 69)
17. Victor Igbekoyi
20. Freddi Mombongo
25. Valeriy Kutsenko

Subs.:
85. Kamal Bayramov
22. Eltun Yagublu
9. Aydin Gasimov
23. Aleksandr Shemonayev
55. Farid Hajiyev

Head coach: Tarlan Ahmadov

Gabala line-up:
22. Dmitri Bezotosny
4. Elvin Jamalov
9. Victor Mendy
(90. Ekigho Ehiosun, 71)
14. Javid Huseynov
(6. Rashad Sadigov, 46)
15. Ruslan Abishov (c)
18. Ruslan Fomin
19. Aleksey Gai
20. Ricardinho
27. Bakhtiyar Soltanov
34. Urfan Abbasov
(16. Ruslan Taghizadeh, 81)
44. Rafael Santos

Subs.:
30. Anar Nazirov
5. Sadig Guliyev
25. Adrian Ropotan
32. Mikhail Sivakov

Head coach: Roman Grigorchu